Create a company marketing profile

Increase your customer engagement opportunities on Pinpoint with a profile that tells customers exactly what your expertise is, and how your software applications and services address their specific business needs. The following steps describe how to write a company marketing profile for Pinpoint. For more information about what Pinpoint offers, see Use Pinpoint to generate leads.

Understand the profile guidelines

General requirements for all profile types:

Do not include quotes, URLs, or contact information such as your company’s physical address, email address, or phone number in your profile description. These are entered in separate website and location boxes and will be displayed prominently.

Must be a minimum of 20 words and a maximum of 250 words. If in doubt, use fewer words.

No spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or grammatical errors.

Do not include Microsoft product trademark symbols.

Do not use bold type, italics, or underlining.

No rich text formatting. Use plain text formatting only.

Marketing profile requirements:

Describe your qualifications and expertise, or those of your company.

Must use your legal company name.

Must include a link to your company’s homepage in the website box.

Do not refer to another Microsoft partner company by name, unless it is a subsidiary or is somehow affiliated with your company, or you have a current agreement with that partner company to act in partnership and/or promote each other for shared work opportunities.

Use the following prompts in the sequence given to create your company marketing profile. The information you provide must be current.

Write your company marketing profile

State your company’s expertise in the first sentence or two. Call out the Microsoft products you focus on. Example: ABC Enterprises delivers on-site and e-learning training. We are experts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Convey the benefit of what you offer or the problem you help customers solve. Example: We help your employees build practical skills that they can apply immediately to improve productivity and lower your costs. We specialize in Dynamics integration and customized CRM application development.

Include a list of the services and software applications you want to promote. Use bullets to list.

Use your Company Marketing Profile to describe your company’s expertise in Microsoft technologies, to list the applications and professional services you offer, and to tell potential customers about the business needs you can help them address. Be sure to review the Understand the Profile Guidelines section to ensure that your profile meets the necessary criteria for publishing.